Re: cross-platform backup tool First beta v2.1.2b1 release towards v2.2.0

Robert Nichols <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.rdiff-backup.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 9/13/22 12:40 AM, EricZolf wrote:
> Hi Robert,
> you actually don't really need to:
> 
> 1. you can test the beta against itself on localhost (if you have an SSH daemon on the machine where you've already installed rdiff-backup) or even using the tricks in the test scripts (check testing/commontest.py, e.g. the rdiff_backup function).
> 2. actually, it's even better if you test the beta against 2.0.5, with which it should be compatible but we don't have those kind of tests in our pipeline.
> 
> Thanks for taking care, so or so,
> Eric

Where are bugs in this version being reported. In particular, the new "--no-ssh-compression" and new/old "--null-separator" options are being rejected in the new syntax.  I can still use the old syntax ("-b" instead of "backup") and then "--ssh-no-compression" "--null-separator".

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